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Yes, I’m calling ALL dads out. Again. I wish all of you could’ve heard Chris Wells last Thursday. He welcomed all to our Wild Game Supper, but made no bones about the fact that he was talking to men as he preached. Why??

Dad, if YOU lead your family to the throne, the chances of your children doing the same is very high. Over 80%. Now, when I write “lead them to the throne” I mean more than just coming to church or bringing them and coming back to pick them up. In fact, going to church is only a PART of leading them to His throne. When I write this, I mean you take seriously your relationship with Christ. You live by faith and not by sight. And NOT that you brainwash your kids to do this (because that would do them NO GOOD AT ALL), but that you show them by how you live your life that God is real and His promises are true. Because they ARE watching.

Due to the vast number of funerals we’ve had at Ebenezer and for family members of those who attend Ebenezer, I am reminded that there will be a day when people will gather around a casket and view my remains. Hopefully that day is FAR, FAR away. But still, it will happen. And I wonder what they will say about me?? Not that I desire accolades, but everyone wants to be remembered as someone who treated people well. But what I am really concerned with is how my children will remember me. How my wife will remember me. They know me far better than anyone else. Do they see the reality of the power of God in my life???

If they don’t, I am not doing my job. NOT AS A PASTOR, but as a husband and a dad.